WHAT DOES THIS MOD DO?This mod adds new soldier nationalities: Argentinian, Brasilian, Canadian, Iranian, Israeli, Mongolian and Ukrainian. It also contains some new names for vanilla nations and some spelling corrections (this one is kinda experimental - I added some national characters to some names, so we'll see how it behaves on various machines).Also, if you are using the OXCE+ version of OpenXCom, national flags will be placed next to the name:

WHY WAS IT MADE?To expand upon the existing database of names. The vanilla selection is a bit random, since many important countries were missing, while some small countries were in. This mod aims to fill the gaps.

HOW DO I INSTALL THIS MOD?- Open your "user" folder (normally Documents/MyGames/Openxcom, though it can be set up differently),- Copy the entire Celebrate_Diversity folder to the "/mods" folder,- Enable the mod from the Game Options menu.

ANY FUTURE PLANS?I'll probably keep expanding the lists.

CHANGELOG:1:3: Changed Democratic Republic of Congo flag to the appropriate one for the time period (by Arvidus).1:2: Fixed sorting issues (by Meridian).1.1b: Fixed transparency on the Belgian flag.1.1: Now with flags for OXCE+.1.0: Initial release.

Yes, it should be compatible with pretty much anything. However, if a mod contains soldiers.rul (or the same data under some other file name), it will be overwritten by Celebrate Diversity (which is vanilla settings, only with more names, nationalities and flage).

I want to see a more realistic ratio in names, with the more populous nationalities showing up more, as well as the more militaristic nations being more likely to give soldiers to X-Com. There should be lots of Chinese, Indian, and American soldiers, but very few Afghani, Georgian, or Somalian soldiers, for instance.

I want to see a more realistic ratio in names, with the more populous nationalities showing up more, as well as the more militaristic nations being more likely to give soldiers to X-Com. There should be lots of Chinese, Indian, and American soldiers, but very few Afghani, Georgian, or Somalian soldiers, for instance.

I was wondering about this too, but then Meridian strongly opposed it because it would mean far less variation in nationalities and I agreed with him.

The rationale is that countries participate in X-Com equally, so they provide roughly the same number of candidates.

I agree that truly accurate numbers would be boring, because you'd get something like 40% Chinese. But I was thinking slightly more accurate ratios, still plenty of people from small countries, but such that it doesn't look like those countries are larger than they are.